This is gonna be my first time reviewing a game/visual novel so bare with me here
There will probably be some MINOR spoilers
Honestly the story was unsettling and great at first but as it went on I honestly started to lose interest, it got boring and tiresome to read, maybe I'm just not a visual novel person but my main gripe was with the main protagonist.
Suzumu is an incredibly boring character who is lacking in flaws which made the whole story a chore to read, all these girls fawning over the most boring and generic character ever. Honestly, it made it hard to relate to the characters because they were all so in love with the most boring generic "anime boy hero i will save them with my plot armor!!!". Literally so much plot armor throughout the story for him but then the ending is unsatisfying bc his plot armor fails near the end, won't go into detail, the one time his plot armor shouldn't have failed it did leading to this ending. The curses were disturbing and stuff at first but somehow they got less and less interesting the more they explained how they were not really a part of reality at all. Toe was really interesting and actually unsettling at first but gradually like when it explained the reasoning for her behaviors it kinda got more uninteresting to me for some reason. The DLC however, was the best part of the game, it was actually unsettling and disturbing and is what I paid to see, completely unnerving and great, ESPECIALLY BECAUSE SUSUHARA IS NOT PRESENT FOR THE MAJORITY OF IT, unfortunately he appears later in it tho. And also the entire thing with the dolls was really not expanded on a lot, there are a lot of doll imagery but its just revealed it really wasn't much of a mystery vs the soot which was kinda lame.Also going to add that naturally since the protagonist was boring, so are all the romances.
TL;DR
Story was alright but kind of boring and annoying to read mostly because of the basic, boring, plot armor, and perfect main protagonist imo, idk if that's much of a big deal to everyone but it completely ruined the story to me for me in a lot of ways, I just kinda wish they made him more relatable or human or gave him more personality. DLC is great and haunting, but can't say that for the rest of the game imo, so I cannot recommend. There's a lot of flaws centered around him but I don't want to make this too long.